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| Before |
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| Old Yews and Junipers say goodbye |
| Before |
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| Walkway: undersized and right of center |
| Before |
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| Retaining wall crooked, walkway step not safe |
| Before |
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| Close-up of "step" to front door |
| 99% Done |
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| Just needed to add a little more mulch |
| 99% Done |
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| Waiting on the joint sand for the walkway |
| 99% Done |
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| Waiting on the joint sand for the walkway |
| 99% Done |
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| A 6" step down to the walkway. |
| Attacking the clay "soil" |
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| NutriBrew, Gypsum, and M-Roots get turned in with each plant. |
| Building it right |
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| Fabric, crusherrun, then stonedust, flagstone and stabilized joint sand |
| Done |
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| Stabilized joint sand is in: no weeds or ants. |
| Done |
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| A look down the walkway |
After digging in this soil I now realize why the homeowner
remarked that the plants just never seem to grow, huge amounts of compacted clay. With each plant I added Gypsum,
NutriBrew and M-Roots. The idea with this project was to take apart the existing walkway and landscape bed and reuse as
much as possible, but enlarge it and make it have some order. The walkway definately takes center stage, it was widened to
4' and given proper 6" steps beginning and end. I also used a joint sand that won't let weeds grow or create ant mounds. Three
5' tall Dwarf Alberta Spruces provide some soft but vertical elements to contrast with the brick fascade. Variegated Yellow
Loosestrife and Pink coreopsis give some pop to the border. The homeowners collection of DayLily's circle the Rose.
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